Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Songs about Clothes/Attire?
AnothaPartofMe
Broadway Star Joined: 5/22/04
#0Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/13/06 at 6:29pm
Anyone know any good songs about clothes or attire from musicals? I'm thinking of using it for a theme in a revue, but need more suggestions...
Thanks!
And if she'll say, "My darling, I'm yours!" I'll throw away my striped tie and my best pressed tweed, all I really need is the girl...
#1re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/13/06 at 6:32pmStrongest Suit from Aida
proudly changing my name frequently since 2004
chances are AndyF is posting above or below me...
"THIS is how you dress for the Tony's, get it!? Ok, see you at the after-party..." [YAHM]
chances are AndyF is posting above or below me...
"THIS is how you dress for the Tony's, get it!? Ok, see you at the after-party..." [YAHM]
AnothaPartofMe
Broadway Star Joined: 5/22/04
#3re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/13/06 at 6:36pmYeah, I thought of those two already... along with "All I Need is the Girl" from GYPSY, "Put on Your Sunday..." from HELLO DOLLY and "The Coat of Many Colors" from JOSEPH... .
And if she'll say, "My darling, I'm yours!" I'll throw away my striped tie and my best pressed tweed, all I really need is the girl...
#4re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/13/06 at 6:38pm"dressing them up" from Kiss of the spider woman.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#5re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/13/06 at 6:39pm
"Alice Blue Gown" from Irene
"My Big Best Shoes" from Valmouth
"That's How It Goes" from Tree Grows in Brooklyn
"Very Soft Shoes" from Once Upon a Mattress
"Pink Taffeta Sample Size 10," cut from Sweet Charity
"Rags" from Rags
"The Hat" from Ernest in Love
"I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story
"Where's My Shoe?" from She Loves Me
"You've Got Possibilities" from ...Superman
"Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" from Top Hat
"Shine on my Shoes" from The Band Wagon
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Updated On: 1/13/06 at 06:39 PM
#6re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/13/06 at 6:39pmNothing But the Radio on from Naked Boys Singing
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#7re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/13/06 at 7:04pmParis Original from How to Succeed in Business...
#8re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/13/06 at 7:46pm
*baubles, bangles, and beads- kismet
*i enjoy being a girl- flowerdrum song (bleh)
#9re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/13/06 at 7:50pm
"Presents for Mrs. Rogers" from Will Rogers Follies.
The song is all about jewels that Rogers brings home for Betty to wear.
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#10re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/13/06 at 7:52pmYou're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile
#11re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/13/06 at 8:08pm
Wig In A Box * Hedwig
Exquisite Corpse * Hedwig
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#12re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/13/06 at 8:47pm
"It's gettin hot in here, so take off all your clothes."
Does that count? 
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
wickedwitchofthechest
Leading Actor Joined: 8/13/04
#13re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/13/06 at 8:54pm
"A Bowler Hat" from Pacific Overtures
"Ribbons Down My Back" from Hello, Dolly!
Does "Finishing the Hat" count?
"Wilkins, after all these years, are you trying to be funny?"
#14re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/13/06 at 8:58pmmy strongest suit - aida
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
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#16re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/13/06 at 9:06pmI always thought that "Rainbow High" from Evita was the definitive song regarding dress.
zbigner
Stand-by Joined: 12/10/03
#17re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/14/06 at 8:43am"Dress Big" from The Frogs
Pass it on - Take a kid to a show.
#18re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/14/06 at 9:51am
"All I Need is the Girl" from Gypsy.
Once my clothes WERE shabby
Tailors CALLED me, "Cabbie"
Got so rough I TOOK a vow
Said this bum'LL
Be Beau Brummel
Now I'm smooth and SNAPPY
Now my tailor's happy
I AM the cats meow
My wardrobe is a wow!
Paris silk! HARRIS tweed!
There's only one thing I need...
"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys
#19re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/14/06 at 10:20amwickedwitch, "Ribbons Down My Back" from HELLO, DOLLY! is such a gorgeous song, I'm glad you added it. The actress on the 1994 revival recording (her name escapes me) sings it beautifully.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
CrAzIaBoUtReNt
Leading Actor Joined: 11/26/04
#20re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/14/06 at 10:35am"I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today" from Avenue Q.
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
MasterLcZ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/12/03
#22re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/14/06 at 10:41am"Jazz Up Your Lingere" from THE SMILING LIEUTENANT (1931)
"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#23re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/14/06 at 10:45am"The Money Rings Out Like Freedom" from COCO. A musical about designer Coco Chanel.
#24re: Songs about Clothes/Attire?
Posted: 1/14/06 at 10:52am
"In Miss Celie's Pants" from THE COLOR PURPLE!
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Updated On: 1/14/06 at 10:52 AM
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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